Hidden inside inverters sit inverters and restriven, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 311 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
inverters and restriven tie for the highest Scrabble score from inverters at 12 points. The top 10 of 311 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in inverters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and inverters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are inverters and restriven, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inverters. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are inverter, nerviest, reinvest, restrive, riveters, sirvente, and verniers, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in inverters produces 36 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries and retires. For points, the strongest plays are enviers, inverse, inverts, nervier, reivers, restive, reverts, reviser, rievers, riveter, sievert, striven, striver, tensive, veiners, venires, venters, veriest, verites, vernier, and versine — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling inverters turns up 70 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire, events, invest, nerves, resent, and retire. For points, the strongest plays are envier, envies, events, everts, evites, invert, invest, nerves, nieves, reiver, reives, revers, revert, revest, revets, revise, riever, rivers, rivets, server, stiver, strive, veiner, venire, venter, verier, verist, verite, verser, verset, versin, and verste — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 78 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inverters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, event, nerve, never, rents, risen, and river. For points, the strongest plays are evens, event, evert, evite, nerve, never, neves, nieve, reive, revet, riven, river, rives, rivet, serve, seven, sever, sieve, siver, veers, veins, vents, verse, verst, verts, viers, vines, and vires — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in inverters produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with even, ever, eves, nest, nets, rent, and rest. For points, the strongest plays are even, ever, eves, neve, nevi, revs, rive, veer, vees, vein, vent, vert, vest, vets, vier, vies, vine, vins, and vise — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling inverters turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, its, net, see, set, sin, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are eve, rev, sev, vee, vet, vie, vin, and vis — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inverters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, et, in, is, it, ne, re, si, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in inverters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in inverters and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
inverters is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for inverters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
inverters is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing inverters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are inverters and restriven, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from inverters earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in inverters produce 311 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 36 seven-letter words, 70 six-letter words, 78 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.